Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The tGovernment Workshop 2010 (tGov2010) is being organised by the Information Systems Evaluation and Integration Group (ISEing) of Brunel University.

The aim of the tGov2010 workshop is to provide a common platform for academics and practitioners to discuss and present original research highlighting issues related with technical, organisational, managerial and socioeconomic aspects of both (e) and (t)-government implementation and adoption.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

COCKPIT project kick-off meeting was held in Athens, Greece, on 4th - 5th February 2010, bringing together top researchers from Europe, US and Asia. The project aims to allow for "Citizens Collaboration and Co-Creation in Public Service Delivery" and is a Specific Targeted Research Project, under the European Union FP7-ICT Programme, Objective 7.3 "ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling".

The fundamental idea of COCKPIT is that Web 2.0 social media constitute the emerging and de facto mass collaboration and cooperation platform between citizens themselves, and between citizens and public administrations. Therefore, Web 2.0 social media will have very soon establish themselves as a very effective means for creating, sharing and tracking knowledge about citizens’ opinions and wishes on public service delivery. COCKPIT adopts a highly synergetic approach towards the definition of a new governance model for the next-generation public service delivery decision making process by combining the research areas of citizens’ opinion mining in the context of Web 2.0, Service Science Management and Engineering in the context of the public sector, and deliberative engagement of citizens for forming informed judgements on public services’ delivery. COCKPIT supports the notion of open Public Administrations with which citizens have higher confidence and trust among each other and with the Public Administration, resulting in better governance, lower disputes on services’ delivery priority setting, higher degrees of public service adoption, lower public service delivery costs, better service innovation, and citizens loyalty to the public services.